Satire

29 september 2015
“Shut up and pick cotton!!!”
The Uzbek authorities have handed out leaflets which inform about the prohibition of forced labour. At the very same time, ...
23 september 2015
While cotton campaign died policeman
The accident occurred as a result of the collision car “Matiz” in which there was a young police officer, ...
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23 june 2016
The price of celebrating independence in Uzbekistan’s schools
The education department in Uzbekistan is forcing schools and kindergartens to sell banners which have been printed to mark ...
16 march 2018
Forensic Examination does not Confirm Torture of Independent Journalist, Bobomurod Abdullayev
On March 15, 2018, the trial against Bobomurod Abdullayev and three other defendants accused of conspiracy to seize state ...
5 july 2016
Double distress: Uzbekistan troubled by cotton worms and downgrading in US Trafficking Report
Teachers and doctors in the eastern Uzbek Fergana Region have been forcibly taken to the cotton fields to collect ...
20 march 2018
Azam Turgunov on the ex-prison warden, Abdukarim Shodiyev: “This person deserves to be imprisoned for a long time.”
56-year-old Abdukarim Shodiyev, who had been the head of the Central Penal Correction Department (CPCD) until February 2018, was ...